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Washington

N, June 16 —Gérmany is not help-

pene situation by saying, through an sguthorized spokesman in Berlin, that she will continue to sink every ship bearing contraband for Britain. . But it should be pointed out that this statement : does not meet the question involved in the sinking of the Robin -Moor.* From the details reported to the State Department, it seems certain that the American ship : carried no munitions, was in . neutral waters, was clearly marked as an American vessel, was identified as such for the submarine commander, and was bound to his own knowledge on a strictly commercial voyage for Cape Town. ~The question is, does Germany i intend to make it a policy to sink American ships under such circumstances? We may expect that ‘Germany will. try to sink any American ships caught’ carrying munitions to Great Britain. But are we to expect that Germany also will make ita policy to sink any American ships anywhere on the high seas, even though bound ‘on purely commercial voyages for ports far outside the war zone? If so, then war is likely to result. It would be almost . inescapable.

" Berlin Must Decide

The situation has arisen now through which Germany can decide- whether to force war with the United States As for the sinking of the Robin" Moor itself, congidered as an isolated case of unwarranted brutality by a submarine commander, that isnot a real cause for war. We are justified in insisting upon punish-. ment of the commander and indemnity for the lost

- lives and property. If it were made clear in Berlin

that this was an isolated and unauthorized action for which proper punishment would be administered, then the incident would blow over. The first reaction here to the news of the sinking indicated plainly that

: By Raymond Clapper

Congress was ih no vivod to diake: much of it—s0 long as it appeared to be an isolated instance and not a matter of German Government policy. It is now for Berlin to decide what the incident shall mean. If Berlin by declarations of policy and ‘by subsequent incidents of the same kind supports ‘this kind of attack on American shipping, there is trouble ahead. That kind of policy led to bur going into the previous’ war and very likely Would lead us in again, There is less justification. for a Gelman, policy of unrestricted sinking now than ‘in 1917. insisting upon the righi of our ships to carry munitions into Britain. many would try to sink such ships. We could have

expected that Germany would try to sink such ships. |

We could have expected nothing else.

- Two Courses Open

But now we have the Neutrality Act; which excludes our ships from combat zones and from carrying munitions to belligerents. I don’t think we can be surprised if Germany attacks American ships carrying munitions into the Red Sea. Technically President Roosevelt has declared that no: to be a combat zone. Actually the purpose is to use American ships to carry munitions up to the back door of the British forces, and we would be foolish to assume that Germany will not try to sink such ships: Berlin might hesitate to do so, but that would only be because of a deliberate policy of looking the other way because Hitler did nut want to draw us into war. by firing on our ships. All of that is scmething else, far from the question involved in the sinking of the Robin Moor, which is the right of American ships to make commercial voyages in neutral waters for destinations outside the war Zone. Berlin can deflate the Robin Moor incident. and reduce it to:an isolated case of no general significance. Or Berlin can use it tc establish a policy of unrestricted attack upon all American shipping. I think that what we do will depend, finally, upon which of these courses Berlin chooses to take.

Ernie Pyle is on vacation. He will be gone about. two more. weeks.

Inside Indianapolis (And “Our Town") x

MICHAEL, FRANCIS MORRISSEY today set a tinique. Indianapolis record. For today—June 16th— marks the end of 10 years as police chief, somewhat of a feat in view of our town’s political turnover

It’s probably even more unique since Mike is only 41. Oddly enough, he is more popular in Washington and out through the state than he is here. Government agencies think extremely highly of him. The joB of being police chief in Indianapolis is like getting into a pot of boiling water and Mike has handled himself well in the hot water all these 10 years. Those people who know him well (Profile, Inside Indianapolis, Dec. 14, 1940) like him very much. His relationship with Mayor Sullivan is an extremely elose one—much more like a father-and-son affair than an official one. If’s particularly true whenever Hizzoner hauls Mike up on the carpet. It’s always like a very sad papa spanking sonny. - We asked Mike today why he thought he had lasted these 10 years “Gosh,” he said startled, “I don’t know.” t's ’

“Joe Minturn Day’

TODAY, TOO, HAPPENS to be -quite a day for the Indianapolis Service Club. ' It’s *Joe Minturn Day.” Joe will be 80 years old on Friday and the elub is turning “all out” today to honor him. Incidentally, they plan an exhibition of Joe's paintings and woodcuts before, during and after the luncheon,

New Books

. AFTER A A SOLID YEAR on the air, the radio program “Invitation to Learning,” is just beginning toscatch the public fancy and reflective of that growing interest is the publication of the book by the same name consisting of some of the very best broadcasts

of ‘the trio of participants—.

Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate and Mark Van Doren. The book covers a wide range of literature and while it may have all the faults of a round table discussion—wandering from the subject, unexplained allusions,

etc.—it also has all the merits,

frankness and freshness and challenge. The participants, are extremely well known. Mr. = yan Doren, an instructor at Cos : umbia, is a versatile poet an 3 ME. Van Doren author and Pulitzer Prize winner;

Mr. Tate is in charge of creative writing courses at

Princeton; and Mr. Cairns is not only a book-reviewer

but the Treasury staff member who passes on all.

book: which appear .suspect to the Customs.

“Invitation to Learning” is being welcomed all over the country, both in its broadcast and written form, as a contribution leading more people to a deeper interest in the better books. Look it up, won't you?

Flynn and the Rich Man

+ JOHN T. FLYNN, who writes daily for readers

of this newspaper, has just written an extremely

interesting. book, “Men of Wealth.” As could be expected, it is a colorful dissection of 12 men who made history's signifieant fortunes. ‘Mr. Flynn has taken Jacob Fugger, John Law, Nathan Rothschild, Robert Owen, Cornelius Vander-

bilt, Hetty Green, Cecil Rhodes, Basil Zaharoff, Mark ~ Hanna,

Hachirobei Mitsui, John D. Rockefeller ‘and

* J. P. Morgan and analyzed both the men and the

methods By which they built their financial empires. This is really a remarkably accurate and courageous piece of work and I can’t recommend it too highly.

‘This Realm, This England’ ONE OF THE MOST beautiful books of the war has just been issued. And it hasn't a single picture

of a bomb crater! . The book is "This Realm, This England,” and it

| HYDE PARK, Sunday.—After leaving the charming young ladies modeling thé various uniforms for women defense workers on Friday morning, I went .up to the International House to attend a conference “on voluntary work camps. The morning was spent in hearing from representatives of NYA and CCC about the programs and work done in camps under Government su;

In the afternoon; the session was opened by a talk by Kenneth

Holland, who went to Europe in’

: the early 30's to evaluate the work : being done in these camps in various - countries over there, He ‘showed a picture of one of these : student work. camps in Switzer-

, on my cottage porch. and

of course, .

. lightful ehapscier reappears with Joung Bill.

.« . Here is an aftermath of the Shrine ednveitiion; but we just heard about it and it’s still good. A lady came strolling into the Riley Hospital Cheer Guild’s breakfast at the Claypool and headed for a certain table. “That one is for the honor guests,” an usher told her. “Oh,” she answered, “I don’t: mind having to sit with.them.” , .. And we've learned, too, that at least one of the 100,000 phone books distributed ‘in Indianapolis a few weeks ago was left in such a safe place nobody could get it. The delivery boy followed his orders to put the book in a safe place and deposited it behind a storm door and then proceeded to lock the door. It cost the phone company an even $2 to repair the damage getting the door unlocked.

Just Playing Safe SO CAREFUL ARE Marmon-Herrington officials to protect their mushrooming tank plant that they have requested officials in nearby buildings to keep

certain entrances locked and to forbid any picturetaking from their office windows. Marmon-Herring-

ton guards know most of the workers who enter the|

buildings and study- closely all strangers who enter them. . . . And of course youll be interested to know that the private bingo games are running all over town again. One hig hall on the South Side is running Sunday, Tuesday and Friday afternoons and|: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Friday nights. There are at least four places in the near-downtown section

running Prefiy 2 regularly and at two of them children|:

are xeported to be ‘used im calling the games. 7°; Heinie Moesch ‘of the Conservation Department, who was a press relations major domo for the Shrine Convention, didn't get a chance to rest up after the convention.- He had to beat it over to Columbus, O., for a Spore show.

By Sher Ellis

is a collection of etchings, drawings, wood engravings, lithographs and photographs of “the citadel of a valiant race” that wiil ‘hold your attention for many long hours. It includes the work of Whistler, Cotman, Cameron, . Leighton, Rushbury, Marples, Haden, Bone, Pennell, McBey, Griggs and a score of other great artists. Here is the England you'll want to remember— the England of the soft countryside, of brooding brooks, of busy ports and of quiet church yards. In the midst of stories of horror and destruction, this book comes as welcome relief. It’s a service. ‘It’s one book you'll want to keep in your collection,

The Who-Done-I ls -

“THE MYSTERY FANS always consider themselves left out of things, but that’s an academic viewpoint. There still are about five who-done-its being issued to every one about general subjects. Five of the latest (and best) are: The Deadly Truth, by Helen McCloy (Morrow). High-type stuff. “Smooth and deadly.

Death Is” Laté To Lunch, by Theodore Dubois. (Houghton-Mifflin). 3 real challenger. Convincing,

Speak Of The Devil, by Elizabeth Sanxay Holding (Duell, Sloan & Pierce'. Not one, but three, homicides! Surprise, surprise; surprise! The Black Curtain, by Cornell Woolrich (Simon & Schuster). Grade-A melodrama. What excitement! The Corpse Came Calling, by Clinton Bestor (Phoenix). Need we say more?

—And Don’t Miss These

AND HERE'S SOME fiction you'll probably be herring about: The Captain From Connecticut, by C. S. Forester (Little, Brown). The author of Horatio Hornplower turns out another magnificent story of the sea. Ann Carmeny, by Hoffman Birney (Putnam). Romance, readable, highly flavored and powerful—all set in frontier days. Old Bill Fights Again, by Bruce Bairnsfather and Ian Dalyrimple (McKay). World War I's most de‘Nuff said.

INVITATION 10 LEARNING, b) by Huntington Cairns, Allen Tate and Mark Van Doren. Simon & Schuster, New York. $3. MEN OF YEALTH . Flynn. Simon & Schuster,

ls John T iNew York, $3.7 THIS ENGLAND, Etchings, drawings, Nood lithogt Sam us

and phot ited b; i ction ov d ao z

Shgravin s Dona! Hastings

" Chamberlai nes New York.

By Eleanor Roosevelt

but I had to go to the dentist and then attend an hour’s meeting of the committee for “The Open Road.” This organization performs for people of the. older age group much the same function that the work camp performs for people in the student group. Afterward, I had a few friends to dine with me and]. went to see Gertrude Lawrence in “Lady In the Dark.” It closed last night for thé summer, but I imagine it will reopen in the autumn, for the house was packed and everyone seemed to enjoy it. The music and the lyrics are very catchy. The haunting tune, which’ runs through the whole play and disturbs the “Lady In the Dark” so much, will repeat itself in your mind after you have heard it. Gerturde Lawrence is extremely good in this part. The play itself is entertaining and light enough, so what moral there is, is sugar-coated and only presses itself home in the quiet hours after the play. What a lot of bother she went through just to discover that she had fallen out of love with the one man and in love with another. Yesterday morning we rose early enough to start for the country a. few minutes after 8. In spite of gray weather,’ Same 2 25 of us had an imitation picnic Then the weather cleared sufficiently for . ever , wanted to swim and

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Middle West

Biggest Gain

-By ‘DR. GEORGE GALLUP : Diteetdr plmaricia, Insitute

16.—The first nation-wide study of public opinion completed since President Roosevelt’s national emergency speech shows an upswing in sentiment for the use of American warships to guard ships going to Britain. The results of this stuilly alse”

- has. cantinued to hold the support of ‘the country for his policy of aid-to-Britain. The new survey, interviewing for which was completed between June 1 and June 8, shows that 55 per cent of the voters now believe the Navy should be used to guard shipments to Britain, as compared with 52 per cent just before the speech. President Roosevelt did not mention convoys specifically, but he promised that steps would be

| taken to “deliver the goods.”

The following figures from successive nation-wide surveys trace ‘ the picture of American public opinion before—and after—the fireside chat: “Do you think the U. S.' Navy Shevid be used to guard (convoy) ps carrying war materials to: er = Unde-

cided 9% 7

Siig Yes No April, 1941 .. 41% 50% May 6-16 ... 52 41 May 2-30 . 52 40 8 Today follow-. : ing speech) 55 38 . 7 One of the most’ interesting ne . dications from the Institute's surveys concerns the average American’s ideas as to whether “President Roosevelt ‘has gone “too far,” “not far enough” or at about the right pace in his policies of helping Britain. Three weeks ago, before President Roosevelt's fireside chat; the Institute found the majority saying his steps had been gauged “about right”—with almost equal

minorities on each extreme. _Today, after the President's

BRITISH USING

Develops ‘Contraprop’ for

2000 Horsepower ~ Warplanes.

By Science Service i : ‘WASHINGTON, - June - 16.—By using two airplane propellers on the same shaft, which turn in opposite directions, British fighting aircraft have eliminated many of the difficulties involved in using engines up to 2000-horse power, which are now coming into use, to give speeds up

* | to 400 miles per hour and more,

Successful - use of the “contraprop,” is reported in a recent issue of the English scientific weekly, Nature. It states that the device has been particularly useful in the Fleet Air Arm, especially with planes operating from the deck of an aircraft carrier. As airplane engines have increased in power, it has been necessary to transform this pcwer into pull through the air. At first accomplished by making the pro-

-tpellers bigger, or by increasing the

number of blades, a limit for such advances has about been reached, the Nature writer points out. However, using two propellers, one

culties are removed, and the design of the undercarriage is simplified, since the swing of the blades is smaller, and there need be less clearance to the ground. Another advantage is elimination of - “airscrew torque.” When the propeller turns one way, the airplane tends to turn the cther way. With a single-engined plane, there may be a tendency to swing to one side when taking off, but with the contraprep, one propeller's motion cancels that of the other This is particularly important, it is said, for craft taking off from the confined space of an aircraft carrier, and also it increases the rapidity of certal maneuvers in che air. e pitch of the blades in each propeller is adjustable, and their is a special control to permit either to be kept in operation if the other is damag For fighting purposes, a, cannon an be fired through the hub. The weight of the entire contraprop, states the article. need be no greater “than a single propeller capable of absorbing equivalent power.”

TRINITY COLLEGE. HONORS JAMIESON

of the biological division of El

ence at Trinity College commencement exercises at Hartford, Conn. -

present is an advisor on the shipment of blood plasma to Great Britain for transfusion use. Among Mr. Jamieson’s biological works was his introduction: of merthiolate as the

prepara

Society of American Bacteriologists and’ bacteriology section chairman of he Indiana, Academy of Sele

visited the library and|ence, on. some}

NEW PROPELLER

placed behind the other, the diffi-

Walter - Albert Jamieson, director | -

Lilly & Co. today was awarded the} | honorary degree of doctor of ‘sci-|

Mr. Jamieson is the author of | I=L several scientific articles and at| S

standard preservative: fo; biological 3 i oT fe

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PRINCETON, N.J., June

As for pe —— Ty = are concerned, dq you think President Roosevelt he on on arn policies ping gE or ot far enough?

indicate that President Roosevelt ow

words have been assessed by millions of Americans, the verdict remains: “about right.” : An added two persons in. 100 think Roosevelt has gone too far.

But this has been offset by an

equal increase among those who still ‘think he has not gone far

_ enough.

The question: “As far as you, personally, are concerned, do you think President Roosevelt has gone too far in his policies of helping Britain or not far enough?”

Too Far

21% . 23

About Not Far: Right Enough

i 20% 22.

Before FDR's ‘Speech ... Today ..

By THOMAS M. JOHNSON he Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, June 16.—The newly-expanded U. S. Army is like a new baseball team that has had batting and fielding practice but has not played a game. They don’t know how to work together in the pinches. So they are being put through the stiffest course of training sprouts in our military history. That is the real meaning of the ‘nation-wide field maneuvers, now in their opening stages, which will continue through summer and autumn. By the time they get through with that little job of work, the 550,000 regulars, National Guardsmen, reserves and trainees are expected to be welded into the closest approach to a formidable, unified fighting force the country has ever had in peacetime. 14 Exercises Scheduled Still an agglomeration of individualistic smaller units, they are now being assembled into. larger ones. First, into Corps, which presently will be grouped within four Field Armies for the biggest war games this country or probably, any other, ever played. For seven .months, in ten states, mainly Southern, there will be a series of fourteen exercises in which will contend not only the classic arms—infantry, cavalry, artillery— but the newer ones—aircraft, tanks and parachute. troops, along the lines developed by Germans - and British. For the first time, an American armored division's full 11,000 men will operate its full 2000 vehicles in the “Battle of Tennessee” beginning June 13. Also it will act as spearhead for the “Rolling Fourth,” our sole com=pletely motorized infantry division, as German Panzerdivisionen acted in France and the Balkans. -Mod-

horses in vans.

ernized cavalry divisions will carry.

Guarding the “Atlantic life-line” slowly gains support.

Arguments pro and con remain very much what they were when the issue first developed. Those who favor. the use of the U. 8S. Navy to guard ships en route to Britain stress the argument that “Britain is fighting our fight” and that “America must deliver the goods.” : In Hendersonville, N. C. a convoy advocate put it this way:“It would be foolish to talk of aiding Britain if we don’t see that Britain@eceives the war materials we can make. It would be like tossing a weapon on the ground between two antagonists—without handing the weapon to your friend.” The survey shows that the most

“sham battles” with cocktail parties betweenwhiles. One officer has even urged the use of some “live” cartridges to keep the boys from getting slip-shod in “action.” ‘Sham Battles’ Included Our new soldiers may shed no blood, but they will shed sweat and mayhap, tears. “Gruelling” is the countersign; long marches, night alarms; they've got to take it, as the Nazis took it, to become the world’s toughest soldiers. . ° Beginning with smaller tactical exercises using regiments as the basic units, the operations will build up to a climax, involving all four of the 9rmy areas into which the country is divided. The season opened in California; then came the “Battle of Texas”; now comes Tennessee’s. The Divisions composing Corps fight one another; then join as Corps, which in turn fight other

Corps; finally, in September, comes|

the big smash of the Second Army (of the Midwest) against the Third Army (of the South) in Louisiana; then in November the First Army, of the Northeast, meets the Fourth Corps in the Carolinas. Use Armored Units This will include an Armored Corps of two divisions, largest concentration ever held, of tanks and scout cars. It will be “first time” that American troops have learned these tricks, now old stuff in Europe. Our maneuvers have been relatively mock affairs, “stove-pipe cannon wars.” But this year, although the Army has three times as many soldiers as last, it has basic weapons like rifles and machine guns for them all. Also it has some anti-tank, antiaircraft and other types of artillery

that were virtually absent last sum-.

mer. - But it has not enough for: all needs. It will be September before the Air Corps training program and

These will be-.no old-fashioned

shipmenis to Britain can spare

HOLD EVERYTHING

A member of several scientific] | societies, Mr. Jamieson is former | f. 0 president of the Indiana Branch,| |]

important increases in sentiment for U. 8. naval patrols, or convoys, has occurred in the hitherto criti cal Middle West. In the past, the states from Ohio to the Rockies have presented majority opposition to such use of the Navy. Breakdown by sections:

-Unde-~ Yes No cided

38% 1% 4 8

New England, Middle Atianye 55% East Central . : West Central . ae » “45 6 South es L 75 17 8 ‘West «53 .-39 8

Arguments against the use of the Navy to guard supply ships

boil down to this: that such action means shooting, and shooting

seve

“cee cssvcense

Army Prepares fo 'Play Ball' Like a Team; 550,000 To Be Welded Info Unified Force

many. airoreft for+ the. maneuvers, and heavy trucks will be short, too. Yet the Army plans’eventually to stress mechanization and air power. Only for a few weeks in autumn will there be full practice in co-op-eration betwen bombers and armored divisions and . fighters’ protecting the bombers, while anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns attack both. So. the maneuvers as a whole will be less than fully realistic and advanced. And only about one-third of the force now mobilized will have the benefit of them. While 550,000 men begin to learn to be a teamwork Army, there will be 800,000 more still going through basic training, still an Army of independent smaller units. By .autumn. the maneuvers will reveal at last the shape of a potential fighting force whase infantrymen know what a. tank can do, whose tankers know what a plane caa do and so on down the line. To increase their knowledge, and to bring the rest of the whole Army of 1,418,000 men up to it, is the task that still remains; a task that cannot be finished ‘this autumn, nor this winter or, probably, much before next summer.

STATE KIWANIANS 60 TO CONVENTION

Roy S. Ruckman of Nappanee, governor of the Indiana ‘Kiwanis District, is in charge of the Indiana delegation attending the 25th annual convention: of Kiwanis International which opened for a fourday session today in Atlanta, Ga. Lieutenant governors of the Indiana District at the convention are Frank H.. Whitmore of East. Chi cago, Herbert L. Espich of Warsaw, Charles R. Bailey of Huntington, Harold C. Phend of Monticello, Dr. Boyd A. Burkhardt of Tipton, Arthur V. Fontaine of Anderson, Dr. Joseph L. Decker of Brazil, Arvil V. Keesling of Columbus, Benjamin F. Wainwright of Hilbert Bennett of Rockport, Theo-

dore H. W. Hilsmeier of Hunting-|.

burg and. James 8S. Wright of Vevay.

More than 6000 delegates from|

the United States and Canada dre attending the convention. George

| Lilly and R. P. Oblinger, president

and secretary respectively of Indianapolis, are among them.

|HOOSIER PERFECTS

ROBOT PLANE -DEVICE|

SCOTT FIELD, Ill, June 16 (U. P). — An invention improving a radio remote relay used in connection with robot control of airplanes has been developed by Private

Joseph R. Crowden of Goodland,|

Ind.,, Col. Wolcott B. Hayes, com-

; mander of Scott Field, announced

Col. Hayes said that the invention has been favorably reported by the War Department and is being con-

sidered’ for future Army use. He

claimed that the device operates

-| without distortion by outside interI ference and on a single frequency.|

0) AID THE SOUTH , Ore,, June 16 (U. 941 “international” spit- . designed as an ‘“ecoto aid the southern ,” will be helg, ni

Connersville,

RSG

means war. Finally there is the idea that the United States is al ready doing a great deal for Brite ain,.and that-there is no need for additional steps at this time. : - From 'a Chicago businessman, opposed to naval patrols, comes the further argument: ' “I'm anxious to see England vin this war, and I want the United States to help all she can. “But I'm convinced we need about two years of production

“and training of manpower. ‘Cone

voying now will involve us in war when we're not prepared, and hence reduce our chances of being really helpful in this war to crush Hitlerism.”

DR. WILL DURANT T0 SPEAK HERE

Brand New Executives Club Will Hold First Dinner.

Dt. Will Durant, writer and lece turer, will, speak at the first dine ner of the newly formed Indianape olis Executives Club at 7 p. m, Thursday in the Claypool ‘Hotel. The Executives’ Club, an Indiane apolis organization so new that it hasn’t yet elected officers or direce tors, is a local branch of the Asso« ciated Executives’ Clubs of New York. Attendance at the dinner is restricted to members and . their guests. : Dr. Durant at present is at work on a history of the world, of which he has finished two parts, “Our Oriental Heritage” and “The Life of Greece.” Part ILI, “Caesar and Christ,” is scheduled to appear in 1945, and at a future date, “The Age of Faith” and “The age of Reason.” Besides his current work, Dr, Durant is also known for his “story of Philosophy, ? “Studies in Genius,” “Mansions of Philosophy, and “Transition.” The ' Executive, Club has ane 3 nounced - that ‘when the roster ig full, the club will have a board of directors consisting of nine men, This board and the officers will direct the club's activities for their terms of office. A ballot is being.

sent to all members to elect direce tot who in. turn will elect officers,

TEST YOUR KNOWLEDGE

1—=Who wrote the “Old Curiosity Shop”? = 2—Cetinje is a species of fly, a town in Yugoslavia or a meat sauce? 3—The members of what American military organization are called “Devil Dogs”? 41s the Zambezi River in British

ir 7—Was President. Theodore Rooses velt married once ‘or twice? 8—Name the capital of the Doe minion of Canada. Answers 1—Charles Dickens. 2—Town in Yugoslavia. 3—U. S. Marines. 4—Africa. 5—True. 6—Hess. T—Twice. 8—Ottawa. : 2 » 8 as ASK THE TIMES

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